Patents by Inventor Charles W. Bittner

Charles W. Bittner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for packaging expansile articles
    Patent number: 4706440
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for packaging radially expansile articles by passing a succession of such articles in generally coaxially aligned engaging relation with each other through a tubular guide which retains the articles against expansion, sequentially discharging the end most article into a second tubular guide sized to permit limited radial expansion of the received article, extending an engaging member into the second guide to displace each successively discharged article away from the first guide to enable unobstructed discharge and expansion of the next end most article, and engaging the last discharged article to displace it and a predetermined number of previously discharged articles out of the second guide for bagging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Precision Automation Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Charles W. Bittner
  • Method and apparatus for manufacture of rolled information label
    Patent number: 4136860
    Abstract: A label forming apparatus and method wherein a stack of labels is supported with a rotary mandrel adjacent to one edge margin of the uppermost label, which label is applied to the mandrel and wound thereabout into a tube, which tube is stripped from the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: James H. Shacklett, Jr.
    Inventors: James H. Shacklett, Jr., Charles W. Bittner